SON OF SOFIA
2017 Films • 1h 50m
Athens, 2004 summer Olympic Games. 11-year-old Misha arrives from Russia to live with his mother, Sofia. What he doesn’t know is that there is a father waiting for him there. While Greece is living the Olympic dream, Misha will get violently catapulted into the adult world, riding on the dark side of his favorite fairy tales.
Direction: Elina Psykou
Script: Elina Psykou
Production: Giorgos Karnavas, Konstantinos Kontovrakis, Christina Liapi
Cinematography: Dionysis Efthimiopoulos
Editing: Nelly Ollivault
Production Design: Pinelopi Valti
Costume Design: Marli Aliferi
Make-Up: Valentin Valov, Petya Simeonova
Sound: Persefoni Miliou
Cast: Victor Khomut, Valery Tscheplanowa, Thanassis Papageorgiou
Original Title: O GIOS TIS SOFIAS
Original Languages: Greek, Russian
Film Production Countries: Greece, France, Bulgaria
Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/SonofSofia/
Statement of the Director/s
"Son of Sofia" is a film about the inability to express and accept love. At the same time, it is a story about how we raise our children and how our homeland grooms future citizens. In that sense, it is essentially a film about identity formation: sexual, national, religious, linguistic and political.
After my first film, I’m once again consumed by a personal story, which, when placed in a specific sociopolitical context, is seen on a much grander scale and expresses much more a collective attitude. Two men vie for one woman’s attention, just like two different worlds stake their claim to the same society, in a violent, absurd, urban fairytale...
Biography of the Director/s
“Son of Sofia” is Elina Psykou’s second feature. Her debut, “The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas” premiered in Berlinale 2013 and, later on the same year, Elina was among the 10 European directors to watch by Variety.
Filmography of the Director/s
2017 Son of Sofia
2013 The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas
Awards Won
Best Film at the Tribeca Film Festival, Best Feature Special Jury Award at the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival
World Sales:
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Christina Liapi
18, Promitheos street
Athens, 15234, Greece
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: 00302106005260
Website: http://heretic.gr/
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